Thanks to the large-scale advertising of chewing gumgum "Orbit" or "Dirol", almost all people chew gum almost always and everywhere. This bad habit has long since taken on the character of a natural disaster in civilized society. Sometimes you ride in public transport, and in front of you stands a charming creature, rhythmically moving her jaws, carefully chewing gum. And then another one. And a little further, another and another. Well, tell me that it is not so! Even more depressing is such a picture in the theater or library. Children - they generally chew almost everything without exception. But this, as they say, is half the trouble. Well, I don’t like it, and that’s okay. As they say, no problem. I’ll turn away and won’t look. What does it matter to me! In principle, yes. Until I step into this very gum, spat out by such a cute creature or a stupid child, wherever I happen to. But these are already my problems.
This unpleasantness we will survive!
Surely, this has happened to many of ustrouble. Sometimes, you leave the cinema or the bus, and on your sleeve, or even worse, on... well, let's say, on the back of your jeans, there is an unsightly sticky grayish-white stain. Your mood drops sharply. Well, how can you remove gum from clothes now? You can't just scrape off this sticky mass, much less wash it off. What to do? But you can't take us with your bare hands! Our people have found methods to combat this scourge. But what to do! You can't throw away almost new jeans, or, for example, a jacket. So, let's look at different ways to remove a gum stain. If such a nuisance happens to you, don't touch the stain until you get home: don't try to rub it off or scrape it off the fabric. Of course, you will remove some of the gum this way. Perhaps even most of it. But with such actions you will thoroughly rub the remains of the chewing gum right into the fibers of the fabric, from where it will become an absolutely unrealistic task to clean them out completely. But once you get home, immediately take the most decisive actions.
How to remove chewing gum from clothing in a "cold" way
There are several ways to remove gum fromclothes. The simplest of them is to cool the stuck gum well, and then carefully remove the stuck ugliness from your clothes. To do this, put the damaged item in a plastic bag in the freezer. After an hour or two, take it out of there and get to work. Having frozen, the gum will crumble and come off easily. If it has stuck more tightly to the fabric, and this did not happen, then try to pick up the gum by the edge with tweezers and gradually remove it from the fabric. When you are far from home and there is no freezer at hand, get a few ice cubes and try to get rid of the stuck gum in the same way as above. You can try putting the damaged item under a stream of cold water and cleaning the gum with a toothbrush. To cool the stuck gum, you can use the "Freezer" microcircuit cooling agent, which is sold in any radio parts store. But sometimes even after such measures, the gum is not completely removed from the clothes, and a stain remains. What to do in this case, how to remove a gum stain? Dimethylformamide or dichloroethane are suitable for this. You may ask, what is this? Don't be alarmed, it is ordinary lighter fluid. Before removing the stain, hold it over steam to soften the gum. Then apply the solvent to it and hold for 5 minutes. Then collect the gum from the clothes with a cloth, wiping the stain from the center to the edge. By the way, before working with the solvent, check how your item will react to it, so as not to ruin it completely. To do this, drip a couple of drops on the fabric from the inside and see if it changes color, or even worse, if a hole appears.
How to clean gum from clothes in a "hot" way
Experienced people say that to remove gum fromclothes, the sticky stain, on the contrary, needs to be heated. To do this, iron the place with the stuck gum with a hot iron through a diaper or paper. The melted gum will remain on the paper. You can heat the stain with a hair dryer or boiling water, and then clean it with a toothbrush. There is another original way to remove gum stuck to clothes. It uses the principle: like cures like. To do this, you need to chew a piece of chewing gum, knead it in your fingers so that it starts to stick to them, and then clean the sticky stain on the clothes with this ball of gum: stick-unstick, stick-unstick with sharp movements. And so on until you clean everything. Or almost everything. And clean the remaining stain with a solvent. Well, the best way is to take the item to the dry cleaner. After the allotted time, you will pick it up as good as new!
